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Christine H.

@csquareh.bsky.social

Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine + christinehchen.com

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Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm honored to have "And afterwards," published in @claudineliterary.bsky.social - Huge thanks to EiC D.E. Hardy for the acceptance. It was a true delight to work with Diana. www.claudineliterary.com/christinehchen

Christine H. Chen | And afterwards,

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · 3d ago

August Claudine is live! Original microprose by: Christine H. Chen, Jennifer A. Howard, Deirdre Parkes, Nora Nadjarian, and Sarp Sozdinler Claudineliterary.com

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 4w ago

"...so you might call her, or you might not, because by that time she might not know who you are..." Such a powerful and poignant story by @sarlynh.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social I loved it.

sarah lynn hurd@sarlynh.bsky.social · last mo.

A lovely surprise to have my story make the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist! Thanks to @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @jhhwriter.bsky.social for publishing it, and of course a big thank you to the @wigleaf.bsky.social team. Congrats to the 50 writers selected this year! gooseberry-pie.com/where-do-you...

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · last mo.

How about a dark humorous sci-fi fantasy drabble? Here's one "Made to Order" in ScribesMICRO—Many thanks to the Editors for selecting my work! Hope you'll have a read: Issue 59's filled with a variety of tiny stories, humor, crime, sci-fi. www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-59.html

Issue 59

​*   Managing Editor: Edward Ahern    * *   Associate Editor: Alison McBain    * *    Special Features Editor: Matthew P.S. Salinas    * *    Poetry Editor: Mary Keating   * ​ ​...

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Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Self-cleaning requires extremely high temperatures, which will trigger an automatic shutdown. During this time, you may experience reruns of bad decisions" Whimsical and imaginative! by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

'The frequency of your life self-cleaning cycle depends on spillage and usage patterns' by Cole Beauchamp

Signs it is time for a self-clean cycle: buildup of grease, odors and heavy emotional residue.  Some say there is no bad time for self-clean...

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Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"You can’t put a baby back once you’ve plucked it off a tree. Why else would you come to a baby orchard?" A deliciously dystopian story by @jekwriter.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/just...

'Just Another Life Experience' by Jessica Klimesh

When baby-picking season comes around, Meredith says we should go, says it’ll be fun to pick newborns off trees, fill buckets with them. We ...

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖@nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"In life, he was blind. In death, he sees everything, she says. She whispers thanks and asks him to make her indoor tomato plant to give her big juicy ones." Don't miss this tender story from @csquareh.bsky.social in #nffd2026 🌊

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Grateful to have my story "Thereafter" included in FlashFlood - Many thanks to Editors @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/ther...

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow I love this dystopian piece by @rachelmhollis.bsky.social in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/term...

'Terms and Conditions' by Rachel M. Hollis

The Department of Marriage and Family has started adding fine print to wedding licenses. I’m leaving nothing to chance.  My veil sits on the...

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Tracy Royce@tracyroyce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Love this, especially the ending, @rachelmhollis.bsky.social

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Mother's starved, memories her sole company, once-agile body gone, the inevitable looming, so hand over heart where aggravation and love tussle, she calls back, says cell phones are unreliable, somewhere, somehow, they lost their connection." Another gem by @sudhab.bsky.social

Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So delighted to have my tiny piece floating in Flash Flood this year! Thank you @natflashfictionday.bsky.social editors. What a splendid celebration of the flash form.🙏

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"As first formers, you daring us to drink our chemistry experiment leading to a glorious sickie together watching Rage, our hands thigmotropic on the couch" Always blown away by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2026/06/all-...

'All the Ways We Died' by Sumitra Singam

As babes, you toddling with the cleaver, your Ma yelling. As fresh pupils, you whispering the answer, us caned by Sister Adele. As fourth gr...

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Sumitra Singam@pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here’s my list flash in @natflashfictionday.bsky.social! Happy flash flood and happy pride everyone! 🌊🌊🌊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🧡🧡🧡

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Desk-bound days, causing the spine to curve slightly, leaning into its history." Ingenious and vivid: an X-ray view of a life by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social in@bulbregion.bsky.social

James Montgomery@jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A joy to have a new flash in the brightest new litmag around, @bulbregion.bsky.social. 🩻 I’ve been wanting to write a list story for ages, and @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social has been the kindest editor to deal with. Send them something good when it next opens for subs! 💡 bulbregion.com/What-Maisie-...

Christine H.@csquareh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The ability to shatter into oblivion the beauty you’ve just created. Before anyone else can take it from you or ruin it." by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social

Anna Vangala Jones@anniejowrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have a new microfiction about grief & beauty & destruction in Bending Genres. read my story “Dishes” + all of Issue 51 🍽️ 🎨 grateful to @rgvaughan.bsky.social & the @bendinggenres.bsky.social editors ♡ bendinggenres.com/dishes/

Journal: Bending Genres, Issue 51 Title of story: Dishes Author: Anna Vangala Jones Text of story: “Louisa, my coworker, keeps telling me about this studio where you decorate dishes before standing on the rooftop to fling them at the ground—she says it’s therapeutic. Better than actual therapy. You wouldn’t be the only widow there, she assures me, lots of widows. She explains it’s nice because you get the soothing, artistic activity first and then there is the destruction. The ability to shatter into oblivion the beauty you’ve just created. Before anyone else can take it from you or ruin it. It sounds strange but I’d try almost anything at this point. I insist on going alone. The ceramic pieces are premade. We spend the first visit painting them and then they get glazed and fired in the kiln. We return a week later to admire our finished products before heading up several flights of stairs to the roof and throwing them as hard as we can at the vacant lot below. There’s not a lot of socializing that happens. I paint my teacup periwinkle and white while I lie to the old woman next to me about my husband by pretending he’s at home and still alive. “Does he question why you come here?” she asks. “My kids don’t get it. It’s good for my anger but they don’t understand what I’m so angry about. Neither do I,” she admits, “but I know I am and this helps.” I don’t tell him I’m here, I say. I like being able to tell her some truth. The day the dishes are ready, we don’t speak a word to each other or anyone else. Just indulge in the violence together and alone. I don’t notice anyone else’s debris but my own. I only see tiny periwinkle and white fragments sparkling on the pavement like millions of stars in distant galaxies.”